Syrian forces began combining chemicals that would be used to make deadly sarin gas for use in weapons to attack rebel and civilian populations, a U.S. official tells CNN.

The United States obtained intelligence over the weekend indicating this development, according to the official who had direct knowledge of the latest information.

The intelligence, the official said, came from multiple sources but declined to provide any more details about how the United states learned of it.

Sarin gas, the source said, could most readily be used to fill artillery shells.

Syrian State TV cited a Foreign Ministry official on Monday as saying the country would never use chemical weapons on its own people.

CNN reported on Sunday that U.S. intelligence is concerned about the Syrian government's intent regarding its vast chemical weapons stockpiles after what one senior American official described as "worrying signs" of activity in "the last few days."
The revelation that the regime of Syria's Bashar al-Assad is mixing chemicals underscores the reason for the increased concern.

"There are concerns the regime may be considering use of chemical weapons" the senior U.S. official told CNN on Sunday.

The official who spoke to CNN on Monday declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the information.

The blog Danger Room first reported the news on Monday, noting the activity is taking place in "central Syria."

Earlier in the day, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned the United States was prepared to act if Syria used chemical arms, saying that step would cross a red line previously drawn by President Barack Obama.

"I'm not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of credible evidence that the Assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people. But suffice it to say, we are certainly planning to take action if that eventuality were to occur," Clinton told reporters.

"There is no doubt that there is a line between even the horrors that they have already inflicted on the Syrian people and moving to what would be an internationally condemned step of utilizing their chemical weapons."

Clinton met with the Czech foreign minister and discussed the concerns, she said after the meeting. Clinton said the Czech Republic has extensive expertise with chemical and biological weapons.

"They have already been consulting about what can be and should be done, both at this time and post the inevitable fall of the Assad regime," Clinton said.

Syria is known to store its chemical stockpile, in many instances, separately from the artillery shells, rockets or missiles that would deliver those chemical weapons in an attack.

As rebel fighters continue to make some gains, capturing military assets and territory, U.S. and Middle Eastern intelligence services have been watching for some months for any signs the Syrians would be loading up those weapons with chemical agents.

In recent months, the Obama administration has acknowledged at least two instances of Syrian chemical weapons stockpiles being moved but has said it believes those were efforts to put the material in more secure locations as fighting increased.

"We don't know if there is actual intent," the U.S. official said about the latest observed activities. "This is worrisome. This is a step beyond moving them around."

The country still depends on "foreign sources for key elements" of its program, including precursor chemicals, the DNI report from February stated, but has the infrastructure to support developing biological weapons.

It doesn't matter who we try to help in these countries that are ruled by Muslims. Both sides seem to want to kill anyone who do not follow there faith, (I know all Muslims don't feel that way, but it seems that the majority of them do). We help them overthrow there government, and it is just replaced by more Muslims that want to kill Americans. The world, including our government, seems to think we have the resources to help all these other countries. If we did, we wouldn't have to keep borrowing trillions of dollars to do it. They always show all these civilians dying. Most of these civilians are the fighters in plain civilian clothes, and they fight from civilian homes and neighborhoods, so of course there are going to be women and children getting hurt. Maybe some of the men who die are not fighting, but you can't tell that when they don't were uniforms, where even a kid or a women could walk by you in plain clothes and then blow you and themselves up. They do it to each other, and then they do it to are soldiers after we help them, all with money we have to borrow. Then we just give them more borrowed money, and then chant, kill Americans. We should stay out of it unless we are being attacked. They should be paying us to help them, because we don't have the money to help. With all the debt we have, we are more broke then they are when we can't even pay for our loans.

Your ignorance defies definition, and you do talk as if you are the all time expert .Put of your PC and go to your nearest library, and after you have read the Quran and its translation, and then read a for a year of two about the history of the region come back and attempt to ask questions about what is going on and do not come to give advice becuase you will still be ignorant but not as bad as you are now.

America is the world's most hostile country on earth and danger to everyone if you ask me. Britain is not far behind. Colonial immoral wars for the Western banking empire drive everything. Russia and China currently hold the moral high ground in the U.N, and they have seen the invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya based on lies and scare-mogering. Be in no doubt that the U.S is to blame for the trouble n Syria, stirring-up and funding these AlQuaeda demons to destroy an ally of Russia. I am from Scotland , and the sooner we get our independence and leave NATO the better.

That is just a silly assertion. China is a communist country without free speech and they habitually break human rights violations against their own people. They stay out of anything political that effects their financial interests. Russia has been doing business with the Assad regime for years and up until the last few weeks, have been supplying him with ammo/aircrafts against his own people, Neither of these countries have any moral higher ground above the US. Seriously, in the early nineties do you think any other country would have thrown Iraq out of Kuwait and led the charge? The US has made mistakes but trust me, there will come a day when China is the lone superpower in this world and you may very well yearn for the days of US dominance.

Send the U.S. Congressman's sons' and daughters' to fight. It is USA interference in almost every part of the world that has led to this. Whether Americans know it or not, the power elite in America have been supporting tyranny while suppressing freedom everywhere in the Middle East. It is your representatives that planted the seeds of this mess

Go fight your own fu cking wars. We are done with this treasonous Congress'es B.S.

Although it’s the end game for Assad and his thugs and cronies, the bankrupt regime is always managing, thanks to their disastrous decision-making process and misguided and short-sighted policies, or lack thereof, to employ the same old scare tactics that got them teetering on the brink of collapse. As usual, instead of addressing real issues, the Assad regime is busy staging and posting fake videos on You-Tube of summary executions perhaps they will convince the international community that he is fighting against al-Qaeda in Syria rather than a sweeping popular revolution that is about to make them a thing of the past. Upon carefully examining this video and checking with the vast network of activists that make up our nationwide team, we found out this video to be fake, which is reminiscent of how the Syrian state TV reporter was seen on TV placing shopping bags near victims’ bodies in previous car bombings that Assad blamed on the opposition. It was obvious, yet we wanted to double-check. In the staged video, 10 fighters lying face down are pleading with members of Jabhat al-Nusra begging that they are “sunnis” not “peaceful” as the captions read. The captions were apparently done by people who did not have a good command of Arabic. The name of Jabhat al-Nusra is thrown in and linked to al-Qaeda in a way we have not seen before. The soldiers keep begging they are “sunnis” and the fighter with the camera makes sure that that is on tape as well as flashing the Deir Ezzor plates to stir up sectarianism and conflict between different groups and cities. What’s really sad is that Assad has tried these tactics hundreds of times and they always failed.
Assad, you only got very little time left. We’re way beyond this stage now and your regime is writhing in its death agonies. Maybe you can try to be a little more creative

Don't want them using chemical weapons? Then help them defeat the terrorist rebels. Oh, you won't do that, so you would prefer the terrorist rebels give the chemical weapons to Al Queda? oh, all right then.

As far as I'm concerned both sides can fight and die for the next decade. They almost cannot kill enough of each other for my taste. Syria and Syrians are rotten to the core. Look at what they put Lebanon through. Now it's their turn and few people deserve it more.

Who cares? I damn well do. And I would venture to say many of us do.....how to convince the combatants to choose peace. How many children murdered? Were they also politically active? How many women raped and murdered? Its time for the United Nations to finally raise a army and escory the goverment of Syria away. Thazt would be followed by a simple election. And finally I propose we send Romney and Patreus to oversee the liberatipn of the Syrian people..

Although it’s the end game for Assad and his thugs and cronies, the bankrupt regime is always managing, thanks to their disastrous decision-making process and misguided and short-sighted policies, or lack thereof, to employ the same old scare tactics that got them teetering on the brink of collapse. As usual, instead of addressing real issues, the Assad regime is busy staging and posting fake videos on You-Tube of summary executions perhaps they will convince the international community that he is fighting against al-Qaeda in Syria rather than a sweeping popular revolution that is about to make them a thing of the past. Upon carefully examining this video and checking with the vast network of activists that make up our nationwide team, we found out this video to be fake, which is reminiscent of how the Syrian state TV reporter was seen on TV placing shopping bags near victims’ bodies in previous car bombings that Assad blamed on the opposition. It was obvious, yet we wanted to double-check. In the staged video, 10 fighters lying face down are pleading with members of Jabhat al-Nusra begging that they are “sunnis” not “peaceful” as the captions read. The captions were apparently done by people who did not have a good command of Arabic. The name of Jabhat al-Nusra is thrown in and linked to al-Qaeda in a way we have not seen before. The soldiers keep begging they are “sunnis” and the fighter with the camera makes sure that that is on tape as well as flashing the Deir Ezzor plates to stir up sectarianism and conflict between different groups and cities. What’s really sad is that Assad has tried these tactics hundreds of times and they always failed.
Assad, you only got very little time left. We’re way beyond this stage now and your regime is writhing in its death agonies. Maybe you can try to be a little more creative

The gas coming out of Hillary's mouth should be considered a weapon of mass distration. We gave Iraq the gas, we gave Israel, God knows what, we have armed everyone on this planet and now we are concerned. First we are attacking through terrorist proxies a soveriegn nation. Amazing how America keeps stepping in it.

No Brian, it was "Udays Germans" to use their term for the German technicials working under Uday Hussein on the Iraqi chemical weapons program. Our military supplied Iraq with raw intelligence on Iranian movements when it looked like Iran might defeat Iraq and invade that country.

The US NEVER gave Saddam Chemical Weapons, the only thing close to a weapon we ever sold them
were some amphivious vehicles.
The Chemical Weapons we found in Gulf War I were from France, Germany, Russia, China

Sarin is a horrible way to die. It is basically an insecticide. It was discovered by the Germans before WWII researching stronger pesticided. Spray ants with raid and watch the convulsions. Now scale that up. It is not fast like being blown up. And if you do somehow survive you suffer permanent neurological damage.

I agree. Why is Obama making it a big deal now. Why was it OK to mangle and kill thousands of people with bombs and missiles. Am i missing something or is this just a bunch of more BS from Obama. If he really cared they would have become tough a long time ago. Do you think the Syrians really take this threat serious?

You seriously don't get how using chemical weapons is worse than using regular weapons? If that's true, you should seek psychiatric help. I'm not joking. You could be a sociopath.

December 6, 2012 at 1:28 pm |

Scilon

Good point.... The difference is that mass kill weapons show a disregard for innocent life. They do not distinguish between non combatants and soldiers.

By the way Syria's Assad has already crossed a line of sorts forcing US to back pedal a bit. The original warning to Assad was "that there would be enormous consequences if we start seeing movement on the chemical weapons front or the use of chemical weapons."

Somehow I don't think so, Theresa. Barack Obama is looking hard to find yet another excuse to murder more Muslims since he hates them so much. They need to export this killer Obama to some Muslim country to be tried for his crimes against humanity unless you consider Muslims to be less than human. I do not!

I'm sure they'll get to that right after the Bush/Cheney trials for the same thing.

December 4, 2012 at 12:23 am |

gman tello

The right-wing news media has yet to show one shred of evidence that the Syrians are "mixing" chemical weapons in order to use them on people. Another well planned effort to disinform the public and further inflame the right-wing lynch mob mentality and war fever already sweeping this country. Has anyone here noticed how the right-wing news media keeps on calling the self-styled, anti-Assad "liberators" in Syria "the people"? I have!

Not really rocket science .. you've known for years that A and B are in tanks on opposite sides of the base (which is how you store really dangerous stuff like GB) .. and then all-of-a-sudden you see trucks frantically going to A and B and then inside a warehouse .. where our multispectral imaging sensors get a pretty good idea of what's going on.

Right and left wing are entirely subjective. To him/her CNN probably seems right wing because he/she is a left wing person. Most people in the United States seem right wing to Europeans and most people in the world for that matter.

December 6, 2012 at 1:48 pm |

bad2worse

Uh-Oh! Weapons of mass destruction.

Time to start another war...............................................................................

WHAT OBAMA IS SAYING IS THAT HE HOPES ASSAD WILL USE CHEMICAL WEAPONS SO THAT HE CAN FIND A REASON TO INTERVENE IN SYRIA.
I ENCOURAGE ASSAD TO FIGHT OBAMA'S RATS AND TO CLEAN THE COUNTRY OF ANY US INFLUENCE.

Modern energetic materials and precision guidance make tactical nuclear weapons unnecessary for war fighting. In ordnance it is said that for a weapon to be effective, the blast radius has to be at least equal to the CEP, or circular error probable. When unguided weapons had CEPs measured in the hundreds of meters and each weapon had to be effective, only a nuclear weapon could do the job. Today with higher explosive charges and CEPs down to maybe ten meters or less, conventional ordnance is more than sufficient for most of the target set formerly assigned to nuclear weapons.

December 4, 2012 at 12:21 am |

Lyndsie Graham

Thank you, Fetah. I couldn't agree more! Barack Obama just wants another excuse to go on murdering Muslims since that seems to be his favorite thing to do!

You need to lay off the crack lyndsie, if you really thing Obama personally hates Muslims you are out of your mind you obviously do not know enough about modern history/politics to understand why world tension/violence is centered around the arab world, its far more complex than 'obama hates muslims'.

December 3, 2012 at 10:52 pm |

eMac

First he is a Muslim, now he hates them. Wish you right wingers would pick a fiction and stick with it.

The Jewish owned media spreading more lies to influence more dumb americans. The jews are more than happy to sacrifice dumb americans to do their bidding. The usa is a puppet for the masters in Tel Aviv

Sarin gas? Why don't they just distribute laced koolaid? Doesn't Assad realize that if he orders everyone killed there will be no one to rule. I say help the Syrian People free themselves from the shackles of tyrany and take the path of self determination and freedom.

If you tell a dope dealer there is going to be a bust in a few weeks, what does he do with the drugs? Keep them there until the police come and bust them??? WMD... same thing. They are somewhere in the M.E. We didn't find them that's all.

If you are referring to the ones Saddam had and we destroyed,we knew they were there because we gave him most of them to kill ,but if you had any brains you would have known that Saddam and the Syrian regime were worse enemies so you make no sense.

Bush even confessed to his lies that Saddan and Iraq had WMD.
Saddam had gotten rid of them as he told Bush and everyone else.
Yet this BS lingers on..

President Bush Admits Iraq Had No WMDs and 'Nothing' to Do With 9/11
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/8/22/president_bush_admits_iraq_had_no

December 3, 2012 at 7:43 pm |

Cheese Wonton

Saddam hired German technicians, with the understanding of the German government, to build Iraqs chemical weapons program. They were called "Udays Germans" after Saddams son Uday who was in charge of the program.

December 4, 2012 at 12:25 am |

Hiruu

Hey clueless...Syria has had WMD for decades now, o they hardly needed Iraq's stockpile, which was destroyed, before Bush-Cheney crazy and costly adventure that bankrupt the country.

Everyone seems so alarmed and upset and freaked out over these chemical weapons. I sure wish the world was paying more attention to the chemtrails all over the world. They're going to harm WAY more people worldwide that these chemical weapons, and they seem to be either ignored or accepted by world leaders.... Not sure I want to know what they're up to, but it can't be good.

If chemtrails are real then pilots all over the world would admit it. They dont. Also the best evidence if youtube videos of paranoid people pointing to passenger jets in the sky. The "chemtrail" is water vapor that runs through the jet engine and literally turns into a thin streak cloud that go aways slowly. You are right to question the goverment just though I would debunk your ignorant paranoia.

Wish the US had not deceived the world in the Iraq-case, so that we would believe this Syria one. Personally I am still tended to believe but that terrible experience have taught much. Credibility matters.

Saddam admitted he wanted Kuwait to believe he had weapons of mass destruction. Unfortuneately he did a good job. The US agencies were convinced and much to our surprise there weren't any WMD. The joke was on us and the Kuwaities. Saddams joke backfired on him. True Story......

Well-the United Nations has gave the United States its marching order-take thousand of Syrians into the United States–to feed–cloth–to take care of their medical needs–one example is -Suhaib Herraka–Gainsville–Florida–he and his familey must apply for asylum–

You would literally have to be insane to use chemical weapons these days ~ The world opinion ~ even Russia and China ~ know you cant play that card anymore. Its a no win proposition ~ So its either a move of "I'm taking everyone with me" by a dictator on his way to death ~ or its not true and the US Media machine fires up the smoke and mirrors on command directed by the Social Worker in Chief.

Where did the U.S. say Iraq was sending the chemical warfare agents too. I seem to remember several large conveys leaving Iraq and entering Syria with what was said to be chemical and biological warfare agents. There were non found in Iraq. Wonder where the hell they went?

Sure keep on lying for the lies that caused the destruction of a country and the million we murder in Iraq,Saddam giving anything to Assad in Syria would be the same as him giving them to the Iranians as they hate one another..
Syria has it,s own WMD and don,t need any from no one else.

"Syrian State TV cited a Foreign Ministry official on Monday as saying the country would never use chemical weapons on its own people." - Very Honest and Truthful. And since Syria has repeatedly stated and labelled the rebels as terrorists and outsiders trying to topple the government, we should all know by now that they are not considered Syria's own people. Thus the use of chemical weapons would be allowed, and no one has been lying.

42,000+ dead, thousands wounded & maimed including many women & children. Where is the Muslim outrage? Where is the CNN 24 hour round the clock coverage accorded the Palestinians in Gaza showing horrific consequences of war? Where r the Gaza Flotilas? To cowardly to go into a real war zone where they'd be shot on sight.

Guess you cannot read. If you were able to read you'd read that my comments says "flotilas" not floats. Hey, go back to school before u post comments. But then u IQ may be too low.

December 3, 2012 at 4:16 pm |

Hiruu

Tonight must be the night for clueless...This is an INTERNAL civil war...what frigging outrage?!?! Where is the outrage over what is happening in Mali now, or the Congo, or ! BTW, CNN has been covering the heck out of Syria with pro-western bias for more than a year, PLUS are you saying we should treat Israel like we do Syria? So Clueless...

syria's "government" can't seriously believe that we would believe a word that they say that they won't use chemical weapons. after murdering their children and terrorizing their people I think everyone knows that these terrorists will use chemical weapons without hesitation if they think that they can get away with it. They have no regard for their people or civilized society and should be taken out at the earliest opportunity. I stand with my Syrian brothers and sisters in the hope that freedom will come soon. Al-Assad, we are coming for you.

it WILL hapen......before Assad goes completely down and before he concedes complete defeat he WILL use chemical weapons......he will die before surrendering and he will use chemical warfare before he dies.

Taken in the right context, few religions are. That's including Christianity and Judaism. Buddhism might be exempt. Not sure. Point is, any religion is violent in the wrong hands. Just as any religion can be peaceful in the right ones. Making blanket statements does little but offend and destroy dialogue.

Samir,
Quit making up stories to fit your bias. I served in the Vietnam war, the Gulf War, the Iraq War and I support US intervention in Syria. Folks who are content to stand by while tyrants brutalize and kill their own citizens have no moral backbone. Yes, I would die for the freedom of others. Your self-service lies give poor cover for your own moral cowardice.

December 3, 2012 at 4:40 pm |

Kim Jong No-dong

I have no bleeding-heart for my own enemies. Why should I? Stop trying to convince me that the same people who hate me deserve my compassion.

Wow, did you see that picture in this headline? Total destruction......assad and his iranian thugs are just pummelling residential areas.......where is the UN? Where is the arab league? Yet they rush to action when Israel kills a petty terrorist....this is why no one takes stake in the UN anymore.....well at least the educated western countries dont...the UN is now a muslim cesspool...just like the muslim countries....

Exactly. This war almost can't last long enough or kill enough Syrians for my liking.

December 4, 2012 at 12:35 am |

MimiH

The fact that the first story headlining on CNN is about the Dutchess' pregnancy is EXACTLY what's wrong with America! We are about to enter into WW III with Syria, and that garbage is taking precedent. Unbelievable! Please read this article written in the Canadian FREE Press about why this is the BEGINNING of WW III. READ it, IF you can STOMACH it! http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51470

The articel ISN'T FOMR Canada...The author is an American who lives in Pitttsburg, PA....The Northeast Intelligence Network is comprised of a network of veteran, licensed professional investigators, analysts, military affairs specialists and researchers who have combined their resources in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States by Islamic terrorists. Team members volunteers their time and combine their expertise to fill a specific niche in the private sector to research, investigate and analyze potential terrorist threats that continue to face the United States. Each professional member of the Northeast Intelligence Network excels in their various fields of expertise and has a proven track record of successes. Why don't you read the article, andTHEN come back here and POST a WORTHY response!

December 3, 2012 at 5:01 pm |

citizenUSA

I guess ASS-ad has been sniffing some of those chems. He can't really believe that the world will allow the use of chem weapons to go beyond the first incident without consequence.

..and President Obama has absolutely no credibility when it comes to making threats against Syria if they choose to use the chemical weapons. Just like he has no credibility when it comes to stopping Iran from building a nuke. Both countries know he doesn't have the g u t s to do anything but throw hollow threats of sanctions and that's about it. Threats without occasionally backing them up, quickly become empty words.

I should send you a video of a person poisoned with sarin..... You would probably be the first one in to stop it.... You will never see a death more grotesque or horrific than one caused by chem warfare...I'd rather my stomach be ripped open by a shelling, it looks less painful

December 4, 2012 at 5:35 am |

Cheese Wonton

What exactly is the world going to do about it if he does use chemical weapons? Nothing, that's what. As long as China and Russia are willing to patronize Syria, there is little the rest of the world will be willing to do about it.

Directly attacking a unit armed with chemical weapons may do almost as much damage to civilians as the weapons if they were employed, depending on where the strike is made and with what. NATO or other regional powers may want to consider cratering the roads leading from the weapons depots, if only to slow them down, act as a warning or give Assad a chance to sit back and think twice before he unleashes such a horror.

where are all the liberal dem pukes who swore there were no WMDs in the middle east when the US went into Iraq. Now Obama is threatening to bomb Syria over the same thing.... stinking HYPOCRITES. BIH (burn in h3ll)

"where are all the liberal dem pukes who swore there were no WMDs in the middle east when the US went into Iraq" I was in Iraq twice. Where were you? You are a clown floridaboy. Serious change your pedo name.

I guess the 150000 kurd killed by saddam and chemical weapon was a lie too.

December 3, 2012 at 4:06 pm |

Samir

All the Kurds in Iraq, just magically died in your reasoning. People are so clueless these days.

December 3, 2012 at 4:24 pm |

Russ

No one said there was no chemical WMDs in the middle east, only that there was only no more left in Iraq. Get your facts correct. Every one who does knew Syria has had them for some time and are binary type, which are more more complex than what Iraq had.

You are an idiot,Iraq is not Syria,first of all we knew Iraq had WMD because we gave it to Saddam to kill Iranians,the inspectors destroyed the rest,as far as no WMD in the middle east I never heard any media said there was none in other countries,Syria have their own and other countries there as well,Saddam and Assad in syria were the worse enemies,so the idea that saddam gave them to the Syrians are absurd,only an idiot like you would believe that.

Wondering what you libs would think about the US bombing the shiite out of Syria if they used chemical weapons. Of course we are the only ones who can really do anything effective. It’s exactly what Saddam did, yet, you all still call the Iraq war unjustified.. Just wondering..

We did not invade Iraq for using chemical weapons. They had used tem on Kurds previously, and we did nothing. The only reason we invaded Iraq was a misguided attempt to refashion the ME, on invented stories about WMD. If Syria uses these weapons, I would still not be in favor of invasion. Perhaps targeted bombing of their chemical facilities in conjunction with international cooperation would be in order.

Another war for Israel? When was the first one? No country has ever gone to Israel to fight other countries...you are a liar and not American...you are not in the American military ....you are a muslim writing from a muslim country.....no one believes your lies....violent islam....

December 3, 2012 at 3:59 pm |

Mileniom

Mr historian Iraq fired scud missiles on Israel and they feared sadam would surprise them with a little chemical present .syria threats it will use chemicals against Israel in war .iran says it will shoot missiles to Israel in war you can't see relations?why US wants war in Syria?to free syria's people?why it isn't going to Africa and free Africans from war and bloodshed mr native American

500 special operations forces, the best of our military are in Africa as I type this training forces in five countries to combat oppressive forces.... The US has made mistakes in the past regarding chem weapons..... But we have new leadership from then

December 4, 2012 at 5:49 am |

BobPitt

During the Iran Iraq was ws the US that gave chemical weapons to Sadam,

We invaded Iraq without justification 25 years after he gassed his own people and 15 years after we blew his military off the map in Desert Storm for invading Kuwait. To compare that to what's happening in Syria shows unrestrained ignorance and complete lack of historical facts. Get your facts straight people then we may yet be able to have an intelligent debate. Turn off Fox News and read a damn newspaper or use the internet to feed some intellectual curiosity. Code – Get your head out of your ass.

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